Becoming Reflective

With a focus on my inquiry, I would like to start using a google form with reflective questions to use at the end of teaching sessions. This would hopefully encourage students to start thinking more critically about the learning that has taken place, or not taken place.

Here is a link to the form I would like to use. This may be refined as we go along.

Manaiakalani Creativity Workshop with Donna Yates

Today with Donna Yates we looked at Creativity in the classroom. What creativity have we completed with our students? What have we created using technology? When was the last time I created something.

Creativity empowers learning. The image above shows the variety of ways that students are able to create - using vocals (singing, etc), whole body (dance, etc), hands, spiritual, feet, and with technology - which helps the learning - the brain in the middle.

Creating doesn't always have to be the end product, it could be the hook to 'hook' them into the learning, in the middle or at the end.

So my challenge, how can I create with my students more often? What creativity can we include in our learning.

Experimenting with Slides with my students

After our DFI session 4, I was excited to continue building my class site, as well as using slides to make my planning and teaching 'rewindable' for students.

I have a long way to go towards creating my own learning videos for students, but to experiment with my new learning, I was able to embed a relevant youtube video into my slides.  My slide is also embedded into my class site, for easy student access.

The only big issue that I face at this time, trying to make learning sites and learning slides available to my students, is the lack of technology in my class.  I can see the benefit of students being able to access all my lessons and links at all times, but until we have 1:1 devices with our students, this won't be effective or even viable.

I will continue to work on my site and slides, in preparation for the day we have access to 1:1 devices for our students. I'm excited about the prospects of this, and the opportunities for learning this will create for our students.

Digital Fluency Intensive #1

Digital Fluency Intensive

My learning for the day included:

• creating a collaborative doc, where students each add their learning, before sending it to another person to add more.
• add-ons like change font, easy accents, read write, icons by nouns (for picture stories)
• Creating posters using google docs
• Sharing and saving google docs for ease of access
• Use "convert' files in settings to convert handwritten sheets (taken as a picture) in a word document that can be edited.